Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Argoed Hall
Argoed, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mynydd Isa, Argoed, Flintshire, designated on 6 November 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 November 1962
- Locality
- Mynydd Isa
- Community
- Argoed
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.17177, -3.11719
- Cadw reference
- 303
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the western edge of Mynydd Isa at the end of Argoed Hall Lane
History
Argoed Hall probably originated C16 or early C17. It appears to have a complex history of partial rebuilding, addition and alteration with a major campaign of work in the late C19/early C20.
Exterior
Pebbledash with slate roof and yellow brick chimneys. 2-and-a-half and 3-storey core block with 2-storey wings, irregular plan form. E Elevation to garden has near-symmetrical main block with a central single-storey gabled porch with decorative barge-boards, two tall sash windows per floor with painted stone lintels and sills. An off-centre chimney rises to the left of the porch. Attached to right and set back is a lower 2-storey range with a basement. The rear elevation of this range has a low brick outshut attached and on each floor a 2-light stone mullioned window, that on the ground floor within the outshut.
The S elevation to Argoed Hall Lane has a C20 extension ground floor and one sash window with painted stone lintels and sills on each of the first and second floors. The gable end has barge-boards and a finial. The left-hand return elevation has a 4-light stone transomed window at first floor level. Set back and attached to the left is a 2-storey range which has one door per floor on the right-hand side, the upper one reached by an external C20 stair, and 2 casement windows per floor to the left.
Interior
Rooms on the ground and first floor generally have boxed-in beams and there are various boarded and panelled doors of late C18 or early C19 date. A stair, probably of C17 date, rises through three storeys. The stair winds around a central core of 4 continuous newels. A cellar/basement is reached from a stone stair leading down from the kitchen.
The 2-storey western range has an exposed tie-beam roof truss with angle struts, and some possibly C17 timbers are visible in the roof space of the main building though some of these have been re-used and many replaced.
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of its sub-medieval origins and surviving interior features.
Nearby in the register
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- Bryn FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-Bont FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn-Yr-HaulDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.